Ken
Can you give us a little run down on your procedure for making the decal?? I assume it is a water slide decal. I am wanting to give decals a try. Looking for the right program and procedure. Thanks and the pen did come out sharp. Thans for showing.
John,
It's a waterslide decal, I found a picture, brought it in sized it and printed it in Microsoft word by importing it as an image from file, Powdercoating the tube I have an old Harbor freight set I bought a couple years ago, I sprayed 4 tubes, baked them at 375 for 20 minutes I think, the another 15 at 325 I believe, it's on the bottles of powder. I just bought some waterslide paper off the web, if you are careful and set your margins right in word you don't wast a lot of paper, but you need to do enough of one line to fill an entire 8 inches as possible, then you can cut the paper a t what ever width you want and not wast much. it doesn't have to be the same image, I did some for a fellow that has a bunch of different little logos and they are all mixed together so I didn't waste much paper. Stay away from the Testors, it's way to expensive, I paid right at a dollar for an 8-1/2 x 11 sheet, by buying 10 sheets. after you print the pictures on the decal paper spray at least two even coats of Krylon Crystal Clear Acrylic on it.
If you just printed one line cut the line off the rest of the sheet then spray it, don't get the spray on the unused paper.
I wet the decal for about 10 seconds and waited for it to loosen from the backing paper and slid it into place, I smoothed it with the surface of the paper it was on. a small piece of foam might work, but when I was a kid building models that's the way I rolled then; so why not now!
I let the decal dry for about an hour then took some EZ Glue thin CA and gently painted it on the decal and slightly over the edges, Be sure to cut the edges as close as possible, I found this out on a Tribal design that fortunately cracked when I tried to put the top section on crooked.. I let the CA dry over night and proceeded to cast in a Resin saver mold 3 drops per OZ 4 blanks cast 1 was a dummy 1 got ruined and two are OK but 1 is my pen.
You asked for it so there.